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• First ever U.S. pressing!

  2024 remastered edition of the band’s 1981 album debut!

  “The dB’s carved out a nice little niche in the genre of power pop while straddling the line between punk and new wave.” Pop Matters

  “(T)he dB’s combined a reverence for British pop and arty post-punk leanings that alternate between minimalism and a love of quirky embellishment, odd sounds, and unexpected twists; Stands for deciBels is clearly a collegiate pop experiment, but rarely is experimentation so enjoyable and irresistibly catchy.” AllMusic

  Pitchfork cited Stands for deciBels among its list of Top 100 Albums of the 1980s, calling it “The missing link between the proto-power pop of Big Star and the college roc